It’s about time we get the ability to shatter Refulgent Crystal. I am in constant need of Gleaming Shards and Storm Dust, but I literally have hundreds of Refulgent Crystals. Especially now there is a tremendous amount of world content that just awards Epic items that usually end up being disenchanted.
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It’s funny that a Q* crystal shatter to one Q* storm dust would still be profitable the way things are now. I feel like a lot of material/crafting costs aren’t anywhere near what Blizzard was planning them to end up at (it’s not just cystals and storm dust). Just out of curiosity, at what point does an epic item become vendor trash vs. disenchant (assuming all talents maxed out)? Around 60g maybe? I haven’t done the math, but it could be less than that now. The occasional leyline residue etc that you get as a side product helps a bit, but the crystals are relatively low value.
Same here.
It feels very unbalanced, right now my server prices are at lowest quality): Refulgent Crystal 6g47s, Gleaming Shard 51g87s. At max quality they are roughly the same (103g/105g).
The best way to “convert” Refulgent Crystals into Gleaming Shards right now are by vendoring epic gear and using the gold to buy Gleaming Shards which feels totally backwards.
Note that crafting material prices are not server-specific, so the prices are EU-wide. I think that’s a good thing, but it does make margins on items like this really tight. Other things like battle pets, toys and BoE armors (for transmog etc) are bound by realm groups, so they are much harder to sell (and buy) on low population realms.
I have been toying with the idea of allowing enchanters to extract tertiary stats like Speed and Avoidance from items and create enchantments that can be applied to new items. Something akin to recrafting (the item originally having the “+speed” would be destroyed) and requiring extra materials (like loads of crystals) and with the amount of +speed (for example) depending on the quality of the craft. (Let’s say between 50% and 80% of the +speed on the original item.) The resulting item enhancement would be soulbound.
Whatever the case, I think the game needs more uses for Refulgent Crystals. (The weekly enchanting quests should be updated too!)
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